Upcoming opportunities to learn about PCT and DAS
It is remarkable how many upcoming opportunities there are to learn about the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the WIPO DAS system:
A smart thing that USPTO customers should do now
(Please also see a followup blog article here.) Those who make use of Private PAIR and EFS-Web are accustomed to USPTO’s very clunky way of accomplishing two-factor authentication, namely the poorly designed Entrust Java Applet (EJA). USPTO has now formally announced (see excerpt at right from a slide in a USPTO webinar yesterday) that it …
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Using the PCT Publication Preview feature
The ePCT system has a very helpful feature which permits you to see a preview of what will eventually be the first page of your published PCT application. This feature was mentioned in an article in the Practical Advice section of a recent issue of the PCT Newsletter. I am delighted to be able to tell …
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A fun PCT day in Minneapolis!
If you try hard enough, can you think of some activity you could pursue for an eight-hour day that would be more fun than spending that day with, say, a hundred other people discussing the finer points of the Patent Cooperation Treaty? Yeah, right, loyal readers, you know what I am talking about. It would …
Hague Agreement, DAS, and four-character access codes
Today WIPO announced that starting today ( February 28, 2018) the Hague Agreement e-filing interface and international application form DM/1 have a new item to allow the provision of an access code via DAS. What does this mean? How will it affect you? Is there anything bad that will happen to practitioners who don’t know about this or fail …
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USPTO favors a particular company
The USPTO did a bad thing the other day. It told its customers, falsely, that the only way to do time-based one-time passwords is to use Oracle’s app. USPTO says “you must have the Oracle Mobile Authenticator app on your mobile device” to do one-time passwords. This is flatly false and it wrongly favors a …
ISA/RU search fee for US filers increases today
It will be recalled (see blog post of November 3, 2017) that the search fee to be paid by a US filer selecting ISA/RU was scheduled for a fee increase today, December 6, 2017. The fee increase, from $482 to $698, has indeed taken place. You do not need to worry about accidentally paying the incorrect …
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For the next week, an extra hour available for WIPO filings
Filers in the Patent Cooperation Treaty, Madrid Protocol, and Hague Agreement systems (utility patents, trademarks, and industrial designs) know that it is important to keep always in mind when midnight will arrive in Geneva, where WIPO is located. For a PCT filer, this matters because to get a same-day filing date, a PCT application being …
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Why we care about Form PCT/ISA/202
One thing that happens, after you file a PCT patent application, is that Form PCT/ISA/202 arrives. (Or fails to arrive.) Why do we care about Form PCT/ISA/202? I offer some thoughts here.
Seeking comments on authenticator apps
I imagine some readers of this blog use an authentication app as part of a two-factor authentication process for various services. For a long time I have been using Google Authenticator (right) with some systems. I’d like to ask readers to please post a comment below if you use an authentication app, mentioning some of …